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Die Goldsucher von Arkansas (1964)

105 min · Western

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Directors

Paul Martin

Cast

Mario Adorf, Brad Harris, Horst Frank, Dorothee Parker, Olga Schoberova, Dieter Borsche, Ralf Wolter, Voyo Goric, Thomas Alder, Philippe Lemaire, Serge Marquand, Fulvia Franco, Marianne Hoppe, Bruno Carotenuto, Joseph Egger

As a gold rush draws a crowd to Marble City, two frontiersmen try to prevent the worst amid bandit threats and Cherokee resistance to the occupation of their land.

The story

In Marble City, an Indigenous man pays for whiskey with gold, but he is killed before he can reveal where he found it. A gold rush soon draws wagon trains and a varied crowd to the area, including the Brendel farming family, Father Benson, and gambler Matt Ellis, who opens a saloon. Frontiersmen Phil Stone and Pat McCormick try to prevent the worst as bandits watch the wagon train, while the Cherokee, whose land is believed to hold the gold, intend to resist the occupation of their land.

Full plot (contains spoilers)

In Marble City, an Indigenous man pays for his whiskey with gold. Before he can reveal where he found it, he is killed. Soon, a gold rush takes off, bringing all kinds of people to the area in wagon trains, including the Brendel farming family, Father Benson, and gambler Matt Ellis, who opens a saloon. The two frontiersmen Phil Stone and Pat McCormick try to prevent the worst from happening, as bandits are watching the wagon train and the Cherokee, on whose land the gold is believed to have been found, also intend to resist the occupation of their land. Benson turns out to be a criminal and is killed; Stone and McCormick manage to overpower Matt Ellis.

Genres

Western

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